DEPARTMENT MEETINGS ESSENTIAL DISCUSSION/QUESTIONS
There are 5 essential supports for reform to organize and improve schools, leadership, parent communities, professional capacity; student centered learning climate, and instructional climate. As a department team begin to discuss and list your ideas and strategies to improve in these areas and to strengthen our instructional core (culture, structure, systems, resources, stakeholders)
LEADERSHIP: (i.e. vision, distributive leadership)
- clear, delineated responsibilities
- follow through on tasks assigned (from both the person assigning and the person who was responsible for the task)
- individual members of the faculty join committees for school improvement - committees meet on a regular basis to follow through on ideas and develop new ones
PARENT COMMUNITIES: (i.e. family engagement/supports learning)
- better working relationship with the Home and School Association - clearer communication between the faculty and HSA
- solicit parent volunteers to support classroom activities
- contact partners to identify student internships and jobs
- soliciting parents to chaperone dances and field trips
- poll parents about their jobs and specialties for job/career day
PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY: (i.e. right people on the right bus/skills in the right seat)
- look at credentials/background of individual faculty
- incorporate new professional development to increase skill set of individual faculty
STUDENT CENTER ACTIVITIES:(i.e. give and take in the classroom, relationships)
- labs in science courses - in other courses use similar type activities (hands-on)
- use of choice boards based on student interests
- provide classroom opportunities where students are facilitators
INSTRUCTIONAL CLIMATE: (i.e. teacher support, mentors, PD, active demand teaching/culture of accountability, relationship
- incorporate PD on new technologies to increase communication amongst departments and faculty
- provide sufficient funding to properly outfit each classroom based on the content area with up to date technologies and materials
- peer observations by department members with appropriate feedback
There are 5 essential supports for reform to organize and improve schools, leadership, parent communities, professional capacity; student centered learning climate, and instructional climate. As a department team begin to discuss and list your ideas and strategies to improve in these areas and to strengthen our instructional core (culture, structure, systems, resources, stakeholders)
LEADERSHIP: (i.e. vision, distributive leadership)
- clear, delineated responsibilities
- follow through on tasks assigned (from both the person assigning and the person who was responsible for the task)
- individual members of the faculty join committees for school improvement - committees meet on a regular basis to follow through on ideas and develop new ones
PARENT COMMUNITIES: (i.e. family engagement/supports learning)
- better working relationship with the Home and School Association - clearer communication between the faculty and HSA
- solicit parent volunteers to support classroom activities
- contact partners to identify student internships and jobs
- soliciting parents to chaperone dances and field trips
- poll parents about their jobs and specialties for job/career day
PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY: (i.e. right people on the right bus/skills in the right seat)
- look at credentials/background of individual faculty
- incorporate new professional development to increase skill set of individual faculty
STUDENT CENTER ACTIVITIES:(i.e. give and take in the classroom, relationships)
- labs in science courses - in other courses use similar type activities (hands-on)
- use of choice boards based on student interests
- provide classroom opportunities where students are facilitators
INSTRUCTIONAL CLIMATE: (i.e. teacher support, mentors, PD, active demand teaching/culture of accountability, relationship
- incorporate PD on new technologies to increase communication amongst departments and faculty
- provide sufficient funding to properly outfit each classroom based on the content area with up to date technologies and materials
- peer observations by department members with appropriate feedback